Decisions

Yeah okay, so the Blog World has assimilated me and I am setting out to learn the DC universe.

The eleven-year-old already gets JLA sporadically, we'll make that less sporadically. Do we like JSA? Yeah, probably, but it's not in the current order form.

I've got a few TPBs coming, JLA and Green Lantern. That, of course, doesn't necessarily put me in the middle of the current DC universe, but that's all right.

We'll skip Batman and Superman because that's just too many comics.

So we'll try the Green Lantern book(s). I always liked the Flash as a kid, so we'll try that. And there's an Atom series, apparently it's not the same Atom, so we'll see whether we keep getting that one.

I considered Green Arrow but when I clicked on the cover pic in the solicit, there he was in a loincloth in (apparently) a jungle. We'll wait until that arc is done. Never liked jungle adventures. And it's possible I don't like GA unless he's combined with Black Canary. So even then, we'll see.

And I never liked Aquaman, so no Aquaman.

Hawkgirl, yes.

Wonder Woman, yes, although with reservations (OTOH the girls like the old Titans book with Donna Troy so maybe a keeper).

I've heard good things about Birds of Prey but I'm not sure it's all that kid-friendly, and I'm afraid it'd be too likely to suck me into the black hole of Batman.

Supergirl, no.

Supergirl and the Legion? Maybe.

And then we figure out what's worth getting.

I need to do some web surfing, there's got to be sites out there that will tell me what (of what I remember from the DC books I read as a kid) no longer applies. I've heard that there's just the one Earth now. I'm guessing that Krypto and the other Super-Animals are gone. And what about the Bizarros? Damn it, this is too much like work...